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This blog post introduces the “ Modern Application Modeling and Configuration for Infrastructure Clouds ” white paper from the Enterprise Cloud Group (ECG) CAT team, that you can download at the link below. We hope you will find this resource useful!
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The goal of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Foundations series is to help enterprise IT departments and cloud service providers understand, develop, and implement IaaS infrastructures. This series provides comprehensive conceptual background that combines Microsoft software, consolidated guidance...

Hello Readers and Viewers! Quite a few Enterprise Cloud Group CAT Team Members / Building Clouds Bloggers were speakers at TechEd Europe this year! On behalf of the team, I would like to express our appreciation to the many thousands of attendees that showed up ready to learn and experience everything...

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Here is the fifth of six posts in the MVP Spotlight Series for the Automation Track …
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Integration Story: How to take the Imports (SharePoint and SMA) & Import them into your Environment ...

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Hello everyone, this is Kenon Owens from the Windows Server and System Center CAT Team in Asia Pacific. I created this post as I have been working with customers recently who asked this question, and since they have, I am guessing more of you have the same or similar question.
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Okay Readers – we are back! Here is the third of six posts in the MVP Spotlight Series for the Automation Track … –MVP Spotlight Series– SharePoint: DFS Share Creation Request Walkthrough (Part 2) by Mike Roberts (a Ryan Andorfer Co-Worker) Building Self Service Requests Using SharePoint In this post...

Okay Readers – we have the next post ready to go! Here is the fourth of six posts in the MVP Spotlight Series for the Automation Track … –MVP Spotlight Series– SMA: DFS Share Creation Request Walkthrough In Depth by Ryan Andorfer Assumptions You have followed the first blog post in this series You have...

Okay Readers – we are back! Here is the second of six posts in the MVP Spotlight Series for the Automation Track … –MVP Spotlight Series– SharePoint: DFS Share Creation Request Walkthrough (Part 1) by Mike Roberts (a Ryan Andorfer Co-Worker) Building Self Service Requests Using SharePoint This blog post...

Okay Readers – Here we go! Here is the first of six posts in the MVP Spotlight Series for the Automation Track … –MVP Spotlight Series– TFS and Service Management Automation – Better together! by Ryan Andorfer Overview Jim Britt of Microsoft gave us a really unique tool for SMA that is highly useful...

Hello Readers! I am very excited to announce the next Automation Blog Series… –MVP Spotlight Series– Ryan Andorfer: End-to-End Automation for the Microsoft Stack Who? Ryan Andorfer, MVP In his own words (from his MVP page ): “I am a Cloud and Datacenter MVP working for a fortune 500 company. I specialize...

It’s been months in the making and we’ve been waiting for it with great anticipation. Now it’s here! That’s right – the Private Cloud Solutions Hub has been reborn as the new and improved and extremely useful Cloud and Datacenter Solutions Hub . The Cloud and Datacenter Solutions hub aims to help you...

Hello Readers and Viewers (new and alumni)! I just wanted to send a big THANK YOU and WELCOME to all the MMS 2013 Attendees and New Blog Readers! It was a fantastic event with so much great information… What is in your top 5 list of favorites from MMS2013? And, whether you attended MMS 2013 or not, you...

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Last week I had the pleasure of attending TechEd Orlando and staffing the Windows Networking booth. We had a lot of people coming to the booth with great questions about networking technologies or just curious to see what’s new. One of the most common questions that came up was – “I...

Trying to decide which sessions to attend at the 2013 Microsoft Management Summit ? There are a lot of great options this year, and here are ten reasons we think you should check out the sessions hosted by the authors of the Building Clouds blog… You’ll get to learn all about the Fundamentals of...

In a surprising number of our private cloud engagements we have run into an unexpected roadblock: Lack of DHCP. Having spent a previous life in the dotcom days as a network engineer, I was really surprised to see today, as organizations and networks have matured, automation of IP assignment has...

As a follow-up to Part 1 on March 8, Microsoft has released version 2 of its Virtual Machine Migration Toolkit in the Hyper-V Switch Program. Version 2 makes it easier and faster to migrate virtual machines to the Hyper-V platform. What’s New Hyper-V Switch now runs on System Center 2012...

You’ve heard a lot about private cloud on this blog. We’ve talked about why you should consider private cloud, what advantages private cloud has to offer, and the key architectural principles, concepts and patterns that drive a well architected and designed private cloud solution. But one thing seems...

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Today’s post is just a quick cross-post and spotlight on an example solution walkthrough.
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The below referenced content was created by Microsoft Virtualization MVP,
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It’s been fun introducing the sessions in the Architecture Track at TechEd North America and Europe. Now I’d like to tell you about one of the session that I’m presenting in. In the session Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure: A Practical Design Scenario I will be presenting with Josh Adams and Yuri...